Dear Audience, the Executive Rail Radar, first issued in 2011, was created to help industry leaders identify the key issues that drive their industry and to promote executive-level thinking in the European rail industry. This year, the second Executive Rail Radar continues in this vein, capturing opinions and responses on key rail industry topics. Our interviewee Mr. Schwilling is Partner in the Transportation Competence Center at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants in Munich. He and his international team have worked extensively on benchmarking for European rail transport and infrastructure companies. Their goal of regularly providing fresh insights into the rail industry’s most important current issues was the impetus behind this second Executive Rail Radar.
Executive Rail Radar: The European rail industry
The Radar found that profitability and financial stability remain at the top of rail executives‘ agendas this year, followed by financing and asset management. One focus is public-private partnerships (PPP), which currently play a larger role in municipal transport than in railway financing. As Mr. Schwilling explains, „60% of the participants think that PPPs are not covering the current public financing gap.“ However, PPPs will prove to be quite significant for developing countries.
Various rail segments are represented in the survey: integrated railways and municipal transport firms form the largest proportion, but the survey also included train operating companies, rail infrastructure providers and a few others. Almost two-thirds of the responses were provided by executives at the top management level, with about 16% from the CXO level.
Study participants are based in the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Enjoy the presentation of the latest key findings and conclusions for the European rail industry and feel free to take part in the discussion via
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Ulrich Hinsen | ManagementRadio
